Rice Garden – Chope Food For The Needy, Give Them a Food Voucher

It warms my heart to know that Singaporeans are doing their part to help those in need and less unfortunate than them. Last year, a “Chope Food for the Needs – Suspended Food Revolution ” movement was inspired by the global “suspended coffee ” initiative and started their own at Singapore’s hawker centres. People would just need to approach hawker stalls and pay for the food in advance. These hawkers would then give this food out to needy people when they seek them. Foodfare’s Rice Garden started their own spin on the “Chope for Food ” movement, by using food vouchers. I was curious and went down to Chinatown Smith Street’s Rice Garden to see how this works, and was surprised to see that they were already selling ‘chai peng’ at a rather reasonable price – 1 meat with 2 side vegetables and rice for $2.50 . The portions were quite generous. Concession Card holders (eg studen...